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468 Down to the Bone
(in the archive: Down to the Bone 2)
Dir. Debra Granik (USA 2004)
Cast: Vera Farmige, Hugh Dillon
Company: Down to the Bone Productions
Film story:
Irene has used cocaine secretly for over ten years. She is a mother of two and struggles with cocaine dependence. She tries to stop but it proves difficult. Her friends are users, too.
Scene: cocaine 00:13:33-00:16:23
Drugs, cocaine, adult, female, solitary, non-transgressive, recovery
Irene cannot afford to buy more cocaine and is having a withdrawal. She is desperate. She ends up at an addiction clinic and answers questions about her cocaine use.

454 Candy
(in the archive: Candy 3)
Dir. Neil Armfield (Australia 2006)
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish
Company: Renaissance Films
Film story:
Candy and Don are lovers who take drugs together. Despite
Candy's family's concern and the couple's loss of money,
they do not want to stop.
Scene: heroin 00:24:08-00:24:47
Drugs opiates heroin male young adult solitary transgressive social relations
Candy and Dan have been wed. They celebrate with the family
at Candy's home. Dan has taken drugs and tries to have
a conversation.

467 Down to the Bone
(in the archive: Down to the Bone 1)
Dir. Debra Granik (USA 2004)
Cast: Vera Farmige, Hugh Dillon
Company: Down to the Bone Productions
Film story:
Irene has used cocaine secretly for over ten years. She is a mother of two and struggles with cocaine dependence. She tries to stop but it proves difficult. Her friends are users, too.
Scene: cocaine 00:02:11-00:03:33
Drugs, cocaine snorting, children, adult female, solitary, family, non-transgressive
Irene prepares her children for a Halloween party and after that she snorts cocaine. Her son asks for a pet but Irene is not interested.

448 Basketball Diaries
(in the archive: Basketball Diaries 2)
Dir: Scott Kalvert, USA 1995
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco
Company: New Line Cinema
Film story:
Jim is an aspiring basketball star, when he starts using heroin.
Soon he is expelled from the basketball team and drifts deeper
into the world of drugs and crime with his friends.
Scene: heroin 00:41:00-00:41:31
Drugs heroin opiates young adult male solitary
Jim writes in his diary what happens when one gets
hooked on heroin.

449 Basketball Diaries
(in the archive: Basketball Diaries 3)
Dir: Scott Kalvert, USA 1995
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco
Company: New Line Cinema
Film story:
Jim is an aspiring basketball star, when he starts using heroin.
Soon he is expelled from the basketball team and drifts deeper
into the world of drugs and crime with his friends.
Scene: heroin 00:45:07-00:47:07
Drugs heroin opiates young adult male solitary sex abuse social relations
When the basketball team is training,
Jim goes to a shower room to take drugs.
The basketball team coach comes and
starts to harrass him sexually.

445 Acts of Worship
(in the archive: Acts of worship 6)
Dir. Rosemary Rodriguez (USA 2001)
Cast: Ana Reeder,
Michael Hyatt
Company: Manifesto Films
Film:
Alix is a young woman who uses heroin and lives in a big American city. She is helped by a photographer, Digna. Digna tries to help Alix to piece her life back together and to overcome her addictions.
Scene: heroin 00:44:26- 00:45:48
Drugs heroin opiates female young adult non-transgressive social
Alix is trying to stay away from drugs.
Her friend, photographer Digna takes her out to meet new people, but Alix cannot stop thinking about drugs.

453 Candy
(in the archive: Candy 2)
Dir. Neil Armfield (Australia 2006)
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish
Company: Renaissance Films
Film story:
Candy and Don are lovers who take drugs together. Despite
Candy's family's concern and the couple's loss of money,
they do not want to stop.
Scene: heroin 00:11:09-00:11:56
Drugs opiates heroin mixed gender young adult transgressive in company social relations
Candy and Dan have fun by taking drugs
while sitting inside a car that is in the car wash.

455 Candy
(in the archive: Candy 4)
Dir. Neil Armfield (Australia 2006)
Cast: Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish
Company: Renaissance Films
Film story:
Candy and Don are lovers who take drugs together. Despite
Candy's family's concern and the couple's loss of money,
they do not want to stop.
Scene: heroin 01:09:40-01:11:30
Drugs opiates heroin mixed gender young adult non-transgressive social relations family trauma
Candy and Dan have moved into a house
in the countryside. They try to serve Candy's parents a
dinner, but everything goes wrong.

441 Acts of Worship
(in the archive: Acts of worship 2)
Dir. Rosemary Rodriguez (USA 2001)
Cast: Ana Reeder,
Michael Hyatt
Company: Manifesto Films
Film:
Alix is a young woman who uses heroin and lives in a big American city. She is helped by a photographer, Digna. Digna tries to help Alix to piece her life back together and to overcome her addictions.
Scene: heroin 00:23:00- 00:24:02
Drugs heroin opiates female mixed young adult in company non-transgressive
Alix and her boyfriend are going to see a basketball game.
When they arrive to the stadium, Alix wants to sell the tickets to
get money for drugs.

446 Acts of Worship
(in the archive: Acts of worship 7)
Dir. Rosemary Rodriguez (USA 2001)
Cast: Ana Reeder,
Michael Hyatt
Company: Manifesto Films
Film:
Alix is a young woman who uses heroin and lives in a big American city. She is helped by a photographer, Digna. Digna tries to help Alix to piece her life back together and to overcome her addictions.
Scene: heroin 00:49:30- 00:50:43
Drugs heroin opiates female young adult recovery
Alix is trying to recover. She tries to call her parents
several times, but has to speak to answering
machine. She loses hertemper to Digna who has taken care of her.

443 Acts of Worship
(in the archive: Acts of worship 4)
Dir. Rosemary Rodriguez (USA 2001)
Cast: Ana Reeder,
Michael Hyatt
Company: Manifesto Films
Film:
Alix is a young woman who uses heroin and lives in a big American city. She is helped by a photographer, Digna. Digna tries to help Alix to piece her life back together and to overcome her addictions.
Scene: heroin 00:32:42- 00:34:10
Drugs heroin opiates female smoking tobacco young adult recovery
Alix has taken overdose and is now surrounded
by people who try to help her, but she
refuses medical help.

447 Basketball Diaries
(in the archive: Basketball Diaries 1)
Dir: Scott Kalvert, USA 1995
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco
Company: New Line Cinema
Film story:
Jim is an aspiring basketball star, when he starts using heroin.
Soon he is expelled from the basketball team and drifts deeper
into the world of drugs and crime with his friends.
Scene: heroin 00:38:50-00:39:49
Drugs heroin opiates injection young adult male in company transgressive
Jim tells about his first experience with heroin. The experienced
drug users gave him the needle and adviced him to start with injecting instead of other forms of drug intake.

444 Acts of Worship
(in the archive: Acts of worship 5)
Dir. Rosemary Rodriguez (USA 2001)
Cast: Ana Reeder,
Michael Hyatt
Company: Manifesto Films
Film:
Alix is a young woman who uses heroin and lives in a big American city. She is helped by a photographer, Digna. Digna tries to help Alix to piece her life back together and to overcome her addictions.
Scene: heroin 00:34:12- 00:35:34
Drugs heroin opiates female young adult non-transgressive
Alix has been taken care of by Digna who
has let her sleep on her sofa. Alix
wakes up and wants to leave
as soon as possible.

442 Acts of Worship
(in the archive: Acts of worship 3)
Dir. Rosemary Rodriguez (USA 2001)
Cast: Ana Reeder,
Michael Hyatt
Company: Manifesto Films
Film:
Alix is a young woman who uses heroin and lives in a big American city. She is helped by a photographer, Digna. Digna tries to help Alix to piece her life back together and to overcome her addictions.
Scene: heroin 00:27:52- 00:29:30
Drugs heroin opiates smoking pipe mixed young adult in company transgressive
Alix and her boyfriend are smoking drugs
with a new pipe. They play with the pipe and ritualize
the drug intake together.

451 Basketball Diaries
(in the archive: Basketball Diaries 5)
Dir: Scott Kalvert, USA 1995
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco
Company: New Line Cinema
Film story:
Jim is an aspiring basketball star, when he starts using heroin.
Soon he is expelled from the basketball team and drifts deeper
into the world of drugs and crime with his friends.
Scene: heroin 01:29:34-01:33:18
Drugs heroin opiates young adult male social relations solitary family
Jim's mother has thrown him out because of his drug use. He goes to his mother's door to ask for money, but she calls
the police.

440 Acts of Worship
(in the archive: Acts of worship 1)
Dir. Rosemary Rodriguez (USA 2001)
Cast: Ana Reeder,
Michael Hyatt
Company: Manifesto Films
Film:
Alix is a young woman who uses heroin who lives in a big American city. She is helped by a photographer, Digna. Digna tries to help Alix to piece her life back together and to overcome her addictions.
Scene: multiple drugs (not defined) 00:04:40- 00:05:19
Drugs heroin opiates joint smoking female young adult in company transgressive
Alix has hurt her hand. Her boyfriend removes the bandage. Alix does not want to think about her future, but smokes a joint instead.

450 Basketball Diaries
(in the archive: Basketball Diaries 4)
Dir: Scott Kalvert, USA 1995
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Lorraine Bracco
Company: New Line Cinema
Film story:
Jim is an aspiring basketball star, when he starts using heroin.
Soon he is expelled from the basketball team and drifts deeper
into the world of drugs and crime with his friends.
Scene: heroin 00:22:00-00:23:18
Drugs heroin opiates young adult mixed social relations recovery
Jim meets a former drug addict Diane who
has recovered. Diane used to be loathed among his
friends, but now she looks down on Jim.

470 Down to the Bone
(in the archive: Down to the Bone 4)
Dir. Debra Granik (USA 2004)
Cast: Vera Farmige, Hugh Dillon
Company: Down to the Bone Productions
Film story:
Irene has used cocaine secretly for over ten years. She is a mother of two and struggles with cocaine dependence. She tries to stop but it proves difficult. Her friends are users, too.
Scene: heroin 00:56:16-00:57.45
Drugs, heroin, cocaine, injection, adult, male, solitary, non-transgressive
Irene and her new boyfriend are having a romantic holiday. Irene finds the man injecting himself in secret and is disappointed. They have an argument.

469 Down to the Bone
(in the archive: Down to the Bone 3)
Dir. Debra Granik (USA 2004)
Cast: Vera Farmige, Hugh Dillon
Company: Down to the Bone Productions
Film story:
Irene has used cocaine secretly for over ten years. She is a mother of two and struggles with cocaine dependence. She tries to stop but it proves difficult. Her friends are users, too.
Scene: cocaine 00:38:50-00:40.00
Drugs, cocaine, adult, female, mixed gender, in company, non-transgressive, recovery, food, social pressure
Irene and her partner have invited friends for dinner. The friends prepare cocaine and ask Irene to join. Irene is struggling to abstain.